Animated Pirates Movie Made With One Million Stills From Fifty 1D Mark IIIs
High-end DSLRs have already made inroads into the world of professional cinematography, but the new animated movie “The Pirates” was actually shot using only Canon 1D Mark III’s — 50 of them to be exact. The movie, made by Oscar-winning British animation house Aardman (the same people that brought us Wallace and Gromit), is the...
Futuristic Drag and Drop Concept for Transferring Photos and Media
Tired of fiddling with cables and memory cards? You might not have to in the near future as wireless data transfer becomes more and more common. This brilliant concept video by designer Ishac Bertran imagines how we might soon be using “spatially aware devices”, or devices that can share data simply by holding them close...
Sodium is the New Lithium: The Future of Rechargeable Batteries
Lithium-Ion batteries are awesome. A few of them jammed into a battery grip can keep your DSLR going through a long day of shooting without needing to recharge a thing. But before you can to do that you need to buy the extra batteries, and they don’t come cheap. A new EN-EL18 battery for a...
Image Sensor Implants Used as Makeshift Eyes for the Blind
Image sensors and the advent of digital imaging have been met with differing reactions from the photographical community. But what a team of doctors at the Oxford Eye Hospital have managed to do with the technology is 100% digital, and 100% amazing. Clinical trial leaders Robert MacLaren and Tim Jackson have helped two blind men...
New Electron Microscope Captures Real-Time 3D Photographs
A team of researchers at the Japan Science and Technology Agency have recently taken 3D imaging to another level. A much smaller level. What they’ve managed to do is develop an electron microscope that can show 3-dimensional photos of their tiny subjects in real-time. In the past, getting a 3D photo from an electron microscope...
BlackBerry 10 Timeline Feature is Indeed Scalado Rewind Rebranded
A couple of days ago the world was wowed by the up and coming BlackBerry 10′s new camera app. The app, demoed by RIM at BlackBerry World 2012, allowed you to select someone’s face and scroll through frames captured before and after you hit the shutter button. If you thought the app looked familiar, you...
Capture HD Video with Depth Using a DSLR and Microsoft Kinect
RGBDToolkit is a project that layers HD video recording with a DSLR over Microsoft Kinect’s depth maps, creating trippy 3D footage that may be an indication of what we’ll be documenting life with in the future. Instructions for mounting your DSLR to a Kinect device can be found here Once you get the two cameras...
BlackBerry 10 Camera Features “Timeline Lens” that Captures Moments You Miss
The new BlackBerry 10 operating system was unveiled BlackBerry World 2012 today, and one of the amazing new features that wowed the crowd was the camera app. It features a seemingly-magical “timeline” lens that lets you rewind sections of photographs in order to recover moments that your fingers weren’t fast enough to capture. Did your...
New Imaging System Captures 3D Interiors in Minutes
If it looks like a Kinect, and the prototype was once a Kinect, you’d think the result would be Kinect-like; but the Matterport system is much cooler than that. It can’t record you dancing with your friends in front of your TV, but what the it can do is render 3D interiors in minutes —...
Camera Phones Used for Augmented Reality Presentations in London Museum
Typically, augmented reality falls somewhere between technological breakthrough and really cool thing to show your friends; but in the Science Museum in London’s Making of the Modern World exhibit, augmented reality also takes up the mantle of education. Using the $3 Science Stories app, visitors to the museum can point their iOS or Android devices...
Pivot Power Surge Protector Adapts to Fit All of Your Adaptor Needs
Here’s a cool little product worth mentioning that could save you time, headaches, and a few electrical shocks. The Quirky Pivot Power surge protector is a power strip with a twist — or as many twists as you want. Unlike normal power strips, this surge protector is flexible, allowing you to twist and bend it...
Google Glasses Make TV Appearance, Snaps Photo of Charlie Rose
Google’s Project Glass has been all the rage since the company released their mock-ups and video of the project at the beginning of the month, and for good reason — the idea is out-of-this-world cool. But from the start we’ve known that Project Glass was only in the beginning stages, the glasses were an idea that...
